Dhaasippen

Dhaasippen also spelled as Daasippenn Tamil English Prostitute Women is a 1943 Tamil film directed by Ellis R. Dungan and produced by Bhuvaneswai Pictures. Starring T. R. Mahalingam and M. G. Ramachandran. Music by Lalitha Venkatraman and S. Rajeswara Rao assets to the movie .The film was also had an alternate title Jothi Malar Tamil . Interestingly the film based on a folk tale about a Devadasis dedicating her life to workship of Lord Shiva and refusing to the follow the traditional family profession of entertainment men. The film had three titles Dasi Penn, Jyothi Malar and Thumbhai Mahatmayam. Desi Penn performed faired well at boxoffice.

A young DevasasiR. Balasaraswathi is forced by her family to yield to lustful ZamindarV. K. Dass. But she refuses for, she is devoted to Lord ShivaM. G. Ramachandran. She wishes to marry to her loverT. R. Mahalingam. But there are lot of hurdles. The Zamindar attempts to kidnap the women to make her his mistress. But his attempts fail thanks to the intervention of Shiva and his Consort ParvathiM. R. Santhanalakshmi. A parallel story in the film about a married sisterT. A. Madhuram, who carries on an affair with a travelling sari sales manN. S. Krishnan and their illicit romance is always thwarted by the appearance of fierce looking gaintPulimooti Ramasamy. The Devasasi is tired of her life, answering her prayers, Shiva transformed her into Thumbhai Plant. Even day, it flower are offered to lord shiva during workship in many places. Hence the film also had the title Thumbhai Mahatmayam.Dhaasippen lit. Dancing Girl or Prostitute was based on a play of the same name written by Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar. It was produced by Buvaneshwari Pictures and directed by Ellis Dungan. T. R. Mahalingam played the lead role and M. G. Ramachandran later Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu was cast in a supporting role. Comic relief was provided by the husband and wife comedy duo of N. S. Krishnan T. A. Madhuram. This film was short 13,623 feet when compared to the Tamil films of 1930s due to the shortage of film negatives during World War II. It was released onMarch 1943 in tandem with another film Kizhattu Mappilai Tamil . ........

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